The agent scheduled callbacks calendar explained

When a VICIdial Agent sets a callback, the date is chosen from a calendar on the agent screen. It is simple to use, but a few settings behind it change what the agent can actually pick. Knowing how the calendar behaves saves a lot of confused tickets about why a date will not click.

A full 12-month view

The calendar shows a 12-month view, so an agent can book a callback for next week or many months out without anyone touching a setting. It opens as part of choosing the CALLBK Status (lead status) at wrap-up, alongside the time picker and the ownership choice. The agent clicks a day, sets a time, and that becomes the trigger point at which the Lead is eligible to be called again.

For the step-by-step of getting to this point, see how to set the date and time on a callback.

Why some days are not selectable

Here is the part that trips people up. The 12-month calendar always displays in full, but a campaign can restrict how many days from today are actually selectable. With a days limit in place, dates beyond that window are still visible on the calendar, just not clickable. By default there is no limit, so every day in the year is open until an administrator narrows it for that Campaign.

This is useful when you do not want agents booking follow-ups too far out. A two-week window, for example, keeps callbacks tight and your pipeline fresh without hiding the calendar entirely. The full year still shows, so agents understand the limit visually rather than wondering why dates have disappeared.

The reason this is a campaign-level control rather than a per-agent one is consistency. If every agent on a Campaign can only book within the same window, your follow-up pipeline stays uniform and nobody parks a customer six months out where they will be forgotten. When an agent reports a greyed-out date, the fix is almost always to review or widen that days limit rather than to touch the agent's own settings.

How the calendar selection works

flowchart TD
  A[Agent opens callback calendar] --> B[12 month view displays]
  B --> C[Agent clicks a day]
  C --> D{Within selectable window}
  D -- No --> E[Day not clickable]
  E --> B
  D -- Yes --> F[Set the time]
  F --> G[Confirm ownership]
  G --> H[Callback scheduled]

What the calendar does not control

It helps to separate picking a date from seeing the callback later. The calendar is purely about choosing when the callback fires. Whether a callback then shows up on the agent's list, and when, is governed by other campaign options entirely, such as limiting the list to callbacks due within a set number of days or holding a new callback off the list for a few hours after it is set.

So if an agent set a callback fine but cannot see it later, the calendar is not the culprit. The list display rules are. Keeping that distinction clear makes troubleshooting much faster when an Agent reports a missing follow-up. For the underlying timing states behind those views, read LIVE vs ACTIVE callbacks, and for the full picture see our scheduled callbacks guide.

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